Author:James Thomson (1700-1748)

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James Thomson
(1700–1748)

James Thomson

Works

Poetry

• For ever, Fortune
• The Seasons (1726–1730)
• The Smoaker Smoak'd
• Ode to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (1727)
• Britannia (1728)
• Liberty (1734–1736)
• Agamemnon (1738)
• The Castle of Indolence (1748)
• Tell me, thou soul

Anthologized:

• In Poems and Extracts (1905) by William Wordsworth:

  Hymn on Solitude

  "Thus safely low, my Friend, thou canst not fall"

  "As those we love decay, we die in part"

Drama

• The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730) (external scan)
• Edward and Eleonora (1739)
• Alfred: A Masque (1740), co-authored with David Mallet, and which contains the song Rule, Britannia! (external scan)
• Tancred and Sigismunda: A Tragedy (1745) (external scan)

Translation

• "The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus" (1747) (transcription project)

Works about Thomson

• "Thomson" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.231-253.
• "Life of Thomson" by Robert Shiells in Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift (1753) edited by Theophilus Cibber (disputed)
• "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
• "Thomson, James (1700-1748)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

Parodies of Thomson

• Imitation III in A Pipe of Tobacco by Isaac Hawkins Browne

On his works

• "Seasons, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)